SoX is a cross-platform (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, Solaris, etc.) command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on many major platforms.SoX is a general purpose sound converter/player/recorder that supports the following formats:· RAW sound data in various data styles· RAW textual sound data· Amiga 8svx files· Apple/SGI AIFF files· SUN .au files· AVR files· CD-R data (music CD format)· CVS and VMS files (continous variable slope)· GSM raw data (with optional library)· Macintosh HCOM files· Amiga MAUD files· MP3 files (with optional external library) · IRCAM SoundFile files· NIST SPHERE files· Turtle beach SampleVision files· Soundtool (DOS) files· Yamaha TX-16W sampler files· Sound Blaster .VOC files· Ogg Vorbis files (with optional external library)· FLAC files (with optional external library)· Dialogic/OKI ADPCM .VOX files· Microsoft .WAV files· Psion (PDA) Record.app files and A-law .WVE files· Maxis XA Audio files· Record and Play audio on various Unix platforms.· null file type that reads and writes from/to nothing. NOTE: SoX is licensed and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL).Here are some key features of \"SoX\":